Ref : http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2009/04/30/
Where CPM 'scores' over BJP and Congress...
from blogs.livemint.com
Ref : http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/have_you_heard/archive/2009/04/21/where-the-cpm-scores-over-the-bjp-and-congress.aspx
Ref : http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/have_you_heard/archive/2009/04/21/where-the-cpm-scores-over-the-bjp-and-congress.aspx
Ruhi Tewari - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:54 PM
If you thought only the Congress and BJP were singing their way to the 15th Lok Sabha election, then visit the CPI (M)'s official campaign website! One of the links in the website reads 'songs' and once you click on it, you are led to four CPM campaign songs - Mehengi Roti Sasti Jaan (Unaffordable food, cheap lives), Haalat Desh Ke Maange Badlao (The situation in the country calls for change), Vikalp Naya Lao Is Baar (Vote for a new alternative this time) and 100 Mein 33 Lekar Rahenge (Will get 33 in 100, in the context of the 33% Women's Reservation Bill). (http://www.vote.cpim.org/node/1352)
Party politburo member Brinda Karat had, earlier this month, released a compact disc containing these four audio songs though I chanced upon them only today.
I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised after listening to the songs which are based on themes ranging from price rise and hunger to women's reservation. These are the broad themes being used by the party in its campaign. The songs are melodious and original (unlike Congress's Jai Ho and BJP's Bhai Ho!) and the lyrics are relevant, stimulating and intelligent.
While the first and the third songs have amazingly peppy and catchy tunes and you take to them immediately, the second song is slow yet powerful. Though most of the songs have an anti-Congress tenor (presumably because it was at power at the center), they are not negative or degrading to the party but rather, they concentrate on the problems of the country (whether or not we agree with the CPM's assessment of our situation is a different issue.) Unlike the BJP's 'Bhai Ho', which is a direct and juvenile counter to the Congress version of the song, the CPM campaign songs are more dignified and do not seem like a childish response to somebody else's creative (or lack of it!) attempt.
Or for that matter, these songs are not narcissistic and do not vaunt the party's achievements, unlike Congress' 'Jai Ho', which concentrates more on praising the party than making the voter aware of its future agenda.
The fact that the CPM does not have resources to match up to the Congress or the BJP is well known, which perhaps explains why these songs are not being splashed across our TV screens or FM stations.
Which party gets my vote behind the Electronic Voting Machine remains a secret, but the CPM definitely gets my vote in the 'Best campaign song' category.
I did not vote
from En route , written by Deepak
Ref : http://deepakwrites.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-did-not-vote.html
... and I'm ashamed to say so.
Forgive me my fellow countrymen for not fulfilling the most important responsibility as citizen of a democratic country.
This is the first vote that I missed since I turned 18. I'm 28 now, and a Non-Resident Trivandrumite. And that's what I have become.
Ref : http://deepakwrites.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-did-not-vote.html
... and I'm ashamed to say so.
Forgive me my fellow countrymen for not fulfilling the most important responsibility as citizen of a democratic country.
This is the first vote that I missed since I turned 18. I'm 28 now, and a Non-Resident Trivandrumite. And that's what I have become.
A campaign where hate is integral
from www.hindu.com
Ref : http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/16/stories/2009041655640900.htm
Siddharth Varadarajan
— PHOTO: ASHOKE CHAKRABARTY
HATE AND FEAR: Security forces are on vigil on the eve of elections in Kandhamal district in Orissa.
Ref : http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/16/stories/2009041655640900.htm
Siddharth Varadarajan
| Visiting a local BJP office in election mode reveals more about the true nature of the party's politics than the dissembling of its national leadership. |
HATE AND FEAR: Security forces are on vigil on the eve of elections in Kandhamal district in Orissa.
In a constituency which tops the infant mortality and malnutrition charts in the country, why would a political party which claims to be young, forward-looking and dynamic wage an election campaign focused solely on the politics of hate and fear? For all its supposed emphasis on good governance, the Bharatiya Janata Party campaign in Kandhamal, Orissa offers a chilling snapshot of the values that lie at the core of the sangh parivar's worldview and which animate its footsoldiers.
During a visit to the constituency last week, I had the opportunity to interact with a large cross-section of BJP and RSS activists at the party's election office in Raikia town. I began my conversation by asking them what the BJP, if elected, would do to restore normalcy in the district so that the Christians who fled their ancestral villages in the wake of last year's violence could safely return home. More than 40 Christians were killed and two Christian women raped in mob attacks that were staged on minority homes in and around Raikia last August. The violence erupted soon after the assassination by Maoists of Lakshmananda Saraswati, an RSS missionary who had been proselytising in the district, and eight months on, thousands remain displaced, too scared to return home.
Socio-economic factorsA number of socio-economic factors account for the historically fraught relationship between the adivasi Kondhas and the mainly Christian Panos in Kandhamal. Today, Kondha grievances revolve around the fear of land grabbing, the use of fake Scheduled Tribe certificates and the demand by some Pano organisations for the community to be reclassified as ST because it speaks the same Kui language as the Kondhas. But violence was never a part of the equation until the RSS, which entered the district in 1969, stepped up its work in the 1990s.
Duryodhan Lenka, who introduced himself as a representative of the BJP's panchayat samiti, shook his head and said it was false propaganda that his party had been responsible for the arson and killing. The riots took place because of the murder of swamiji, he said. "He stood for the protection of Hindu culture and society so the Christians killed him." Regardless of who might be responsible for the violence, I said, surely the party has a strategy to bring peace so that the pressing issues of development could be addressed. Lenka and the other activists looked at me as if I was a mad person. Vinayak Panda, president of the BJP's district youth wing, shrugged his shoulders. "What can we do? We have no strategy." The main issue, said another activist, was that the "false cases" that had been filed against 10,000 "innocent people" for the violence should be withdrawn and that swamiji's killers be caught. Among the men he described as innocent was Manoj Kumar Pradhan, the BJP candidate for the G. Udaygiri Assembly seat, who the administration alleges was the chief executioner of the anti-Christian violence.
As the BJP activists warmed to the discussion, one young leader told me that the scale of the violence had been exaggerated and that many Christians had burnt their own "toota-phoota." or dilapidated, homes in order to get government compensation. "You have to understand that they are lazy," he said. "If they stay in camp instead of going home, they get free food and relief. They don't have to work. And then they know the money they are getting from America will stop the minute they leave the camps."
Ashok Sahu, a young RSS activist (not to be confused with the BJP candidate currently in jail for hate speech) then listed out a number of sins that he said the Christians were guilty of. These included falsely accusing Hindus of committing crimes, abducting Hindu girls, grabbing adivasi land and reservation quotas, and, of course, engaging in religious conversion. And now "they" had joined hands with the Maoists to kill Lakhsmananda Saraswati. I turned the discussion back to the late swami's work. Some scholars have written that he also tried to influence the religious practices of the adivasis so that they were more in line with the Hindu mainstream, I said. He wanted the Kondhas to give up traditional practices like 'dhangda dhangdi,' for example, in favour of more brahminised Hindu rituals. "Definitely swamiji tried to promote good sanskaras among the adivasis," an activist replied. But doesn't that amount to the same kind of religious conversion you accuse the Christians of doing, I asked. They bristled at the suggestion and turned to an older adivasi supporter who was sitting among us for support. "Did the swamiji try to get the adivasis to change their religion?" someone asked him. To their surprise and horror, the adivasi, G. Pradhan, said yes. It was also dharmantaran, or conversion. A bitter argument followed, but Pradhan stuck to his guns. Panda, the BJP youth leader, quickly brought the discussion back to the violence. "If swamiji had not been killed, this would not have happened," he said, adding in English, for effect: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
I wanted to say there was at least one Christian, Newton, he seemed to approve of but resisted the urge. The discussion had come full circle and it was time to leave.
Is Open Source Experience Overrated?
from Coding Horror , written by Jeff Atwood
Ref : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001255.html
Ref : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001255.html
I'm a big advocate of learning on the battlefield. And that certainly includes what may be the most epic battle of them all: open source software.
Contribute to an open-source project. There are thousands, so pick whatever strikes your fancy. But pick one and really dig in, become an active contributor. Absolutely nothing is more practical, more real, than working collaboratively with software developers all over the globe from all walks of life.
If you're looking to polish your programming chops, what could possibly be better, more job-worthy experience than immersing yourself in a real live open source software project? There are thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, and a few of them have arguably changed the world.
Unfortunately, that wasn't what happened for one particular open source developer. In an anonymous email to me, he related his experiences:
I'm a programmer with 14 years of experience both inside academics and in commercial industry currently looking for work. In both my cover letters and my resume I indicate that I am the architect of a couple of open source Java projects where the code, design and applications were available on the web.One company seemed impressed with my enthusiasm for the job but it was part of their policy to provide coding tests. This seemed perfectly reasonable and I did it by using the first solution I thought about. When I got to the phone interview, the guy spent about five minutes telling me how inefficient my coding solution was and that they were not very impressed. Then I asked whether he had looked at the open source projects I mentioned. He said no - but it seems his impression was already set based on my performance in the coding test. The coding test did not indicate what criteria they were using for evaluation but my solution seemed to kill the interview.
In another call, I was talking with a recruiter who was trying to place someone for a contract Java development assignment. I told her that most of my recent work was open source and that she could inspect it if she wanted to assess my technical competence. Five minutes later she phoned back and said I appeared to lack any recent commercial experience. I had demonstrable open source applications that used the technologies they wanted, but it didn't appear to matter.
With yet another recruiter I told him that even years ago when I had worked on commercial projects, before I went back to school, the proprietary nature of my jobs prevented me from mentioning the specifics about a lot of what I did. The badge of commercial software experience didn't necessarily prove either my technical competence or my relative contribution to the projects. What my experience of working in industry long ago did teach me was how to fill out a time sheet and estimate time for deliverables. But this experience would seem a bit dated now for recruiters.
That's a terrible interview track record for the open source experience that I advocated so strongly. He continues:
I think it's important that I try to see their point of view. A lot of open source projects are probably poorly written and made in response to a neat idea rather than to requirements from some user community. In academia, the goal for development is often more about publishing papers than establishing a user base. Industry people sometimes have the view (sometimes justified and sometimes not) that open source developers who emerge from academic projects lack practical skills. I don't necessarily claim my open source code is the best in the world but it works, it's documented and it's available for scrutiny. One of the reasons I worked so hard on open source projects was to make job interviews easier. By providing prospective employers with large samples of publically available working code, I thought I would give them something more useful to think about than my performance on a particular coding test or whether the acronyms in the job skills matched my "years spent". I am very aware of the hype behind open source. I've heard it, lived it and even spun some of it myself. But sometimes it's good to take a sobering reality check -- is open-source experience overrated?
It's disheartening to hear so many prospective employers completely disregard experience on open source projects. It's a part of your programming portfolio, and any company not even willing to take a cursory look at your portfolio before interviewing you is already suspect. This reflects poorly on the employers. I'm not sure I'd want to work at a place where a programmers' prior body of work is treated as inconsequential.
On the other hand, perhaps the choice of open source project matters almost as much as the programming itself. How many open source projects labor away in utter obscurity, solving problems that nobody cares about, problems so incredibly narrow that the authors are the only possible beneficiaries? Just as commercial software can't possibly exist without customers, perhaps open source experience is only valid if you work on a project that attains some moderate level of critical mass and user base. Remember, shipping isn't enough. Open source or not, if you aren't building software that someone finds useful, if you aren't convincing at least a small audience of programmers that your project is worthwhile enough to join --
Then what are you really doing?
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My Vodafone - Friend, Philosopher, Guide
from Quirky Quibbly Quibbling , written by Balajee.R.C
Ref : http://mmmiwonder.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-vodafone-friend-philosopher-guide.html
Ref : http://mmmiwonder.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-vodafone-friend-philosopher-guide.html
Its amazing how you find people who turn out to be that father figure and guiding light in your life. For most of us you need to go out there and find one for yourself. For some of us, a fatherfigure is always at hand offering succinctly worded wisps of wisdom now and then. For Vodafone users ofcourse, advice is only a message away; a portable, on-demand, 3 bucks per message, Friend, Philosopher, Guide, Astrologer... and quite a bit more that you'd never realise if you were one of those who delete these messages as soon as you see the sender's name.
Sometimes, there are sources of joy in our lives which remain hidden to us. You need a wise person to point it out to you. For eg. wouldn't you be positively thrilled if you knew that your zodiac foretells of an imminent meeting with a vivacious young maiden within the next month. Wait, it gets better. Clearly you must be wondering what to do in the meantime. Well, VT-VODAFONE has answers to that too. It acts a carry-in-your pocket pimp always eager to let you get in touch with 'girls in your neighbourhood.' Well, either that or its probably try to do what those online marriage brokering sites do.
So, now that you are hooked up (one way or another) with a 'pretty maiden' (well, not so sure about the 'maiden' part, strictly speaking), Vodafone even tells you how to pick the best of the many maidens who'll come your way. Afterall, you definitely need to brace yourself for many more than one, what with the several times it is predicted by your zodiac (I get
three everyday, boy, next month's gonna be busy).
For eg. based on the numerological significance of the arrangement of letters in my name, V-VT tells me that I am most likely to be happy if I marry someone 'vivacious and full of zest', one who can 'share my joy for living it up'. See, why I trust V-VT so much is because of the fact that it(?) is able to see my real personality, of how, even though I appear content doing a mind numbing 8-6, on the inside, I really want to 'live it up' (though I haven't really thought about how; must make a note to ask V-VT).
Its V-VT that helped me discover my real character. For instance, I never knew I had an 'innate ability to connect with people'. Forget the fact that on any given day my interaction with anybody would be confined to no more than 15 syllables or so; what matters is the potential: that I can connect if I try. Another thing I didn't know about my own character was that I was a very caring person.
Apparently, because of this inherent character, I love animals and children. Now, I don't have any kids (to the best of my knowledge) and the only significant thought I have given any animals were when they came served on a plate. However, its good to rediscover oneself. Coming to think of it, maybe I do like children (and V-VT is already trying to help me make
some) and as far as my love for animals go, I am now considering quitting my job and setting up a poultry. That way, I get to give animals my attention well before they end up on my plate.
V-VT always puts a smile on my face at the end of a long day with one of 'em, "Your motha's sooo fat that ..." jokes. It helps me plan for the weekend movie by delivering the best snaps of the women starring in it. It helps me find out cool facts about the world that I never knew, like the fact that reindeer is a delicacy in Sweden (Does Santa know?). And I never start a day without one of those thought provoking messages that VT sends me, "If you think you can't, you can't."
What would I do without my Vodafone-VT? Have you noticed how persistent VT is? Do you realise how desperately VT wants to help? If you don't have someone you can look upto and turn to for help when you so need it, look no further. Just stop deleting those messages that VT sends you. Let them in and watch your life transform.
Sometimes, there are sources of joy in our lives which remain hidden to us. You need a wise person to point it out to you. For eg. wouldn't you be positively thrilled if you knew that your zodiac foretells of an imminent meeting with a vivacious young maiden within the next month. Wait, it gets better. Clearly you must be wondering what to do in the meantime. Well, VT-VODAFONE has answers to that too. It acts a carry-in-your pocket pimp always eager to let you get in touch with 'girls in your neighbourhood.' Well, either that or its probably try to do what those online marriage brokering sites do.
So, now that you are hooked up (one way or another) with a 'pretty maiden' (well, not so sure about the 'maiden' part, strictly speaking), Vodafone even tells you how to pick the best of the many maidens who'll come your way. Afterall, you definitely need to brace yourself for many more than one, what with the several times it is predicted by your zodiac (I get
three everyday, boy, next month's gonna be busy).
For eg. based on the numerological significance of the arrangement of letters in my name, V-VT tells me that I am most likely to be happy if I marry someone 'vivacious and full of zest', one who can 'share my joy for living it up'. See, why I trust V-VT so much is because of the fact that it(?) is able to see my real personality, of how, even though I appear content doing a mind numbing 8-6, on the inside, I really want to 'live it up' (though I haven't really thought about how; must make a note to ask V-VT).
Its V-VT that helped me discover my real character. For instance, I never knew I had an 'innate ability to connect with people'. Forget the fact that on any given day my interaction with anybody would be confined to no more than 15 syllables or so; what matters is the potential: that I can connect if I try. Another thing I didn't know about my own character was that I was a very caring person.
Apparently, because of this inherent character, I love animals and children. Now, I don't have any kids (to the best of my knowledge) and the only significant thought I have given any animals were when they came served on a plate. However, its good to rediscover oneself. Coming to think of it, maybe I do like children (and V-VT is already trying to help me make
some) and as far as my love for animals go, I am now considering quitting my job and setting up a poultry. That way, I get to give animals my attention well before they end up on my plate.
V-VT always puts a smile on my face at the end of a long day with one of 'em, "Your motha's sooo fat that ..." jokes. It helps me plan for the weekend movie by delivering the best snaps of the women starring in it. It helps me find out cool facts about the world that I never knew, like the fact that reindeer is a delicacy in Sweden (Does Santa know?). And I never start a day without one of those thought provoking messages that VT sends me, "If you think you can't, you can't."
What would I do without my Vodafone-VT? Have you noticed how persistent VT is? Do you realise how desperately VT wants to help? If you don't have someone you can look upto and turn to for help when you so need it, look no further. Just stop deleting those messages that VT sends you. Let them in and watch your life transform.
04/13/09 PHD comic: 'Cut and paste'
from PHD Comics
Ref : http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1159
Ref : http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1159
| Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham | www.phdcomics.com | |
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| title: "Cut and paste" - originally published 4/13/2009 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! | ||
Intellectuals and Artists Appeal to Vote for Left | Vote for CPI(M)
from vote.cpim.org
Ref : http://vote.cpim.org/node/1404
Ref : http://vote.cpim.org/node/1404
Irfan Habib
Professor Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University
"As India goes to polls to elect the country's Parliament it is crucial for us to realize that the interests of all sections of our people, the poor, the workers, peasants, and the middle classes, will be served best by electing to Parliament the largest possible number of candidates of the CPI(M) and other Left parties. It was because of the efforts of the Left Parties that the ruling Congress was unable to implement many of its projected measures designed to favour big business at the cost of the people. The Left Parties have uncompromisingly fought against the Congress government's increasing subservience to US imperialism and growing closeness to Israel. They have also unflinchingly stood up for secularism, women's rights, affirmative action for minorities and protection of dalits' interests. By voting firmly for the Left Front candidates, people will surely help to change the destiny of the whole country."
Prabhat Patnaik
Vice Chairman, Kerala Planning Board
"The formation of a modern Indian nation out of an extraordinarily disparate population riven by millennia of caste, class, gender and other forms of oppression is a marvel of our time. It is a legacy of our prolonged anti-colonial struggle that was founded upon an implicit "social contract", whose main elements were: electoral democracy based on universal adult franchise, secularism, civil liberties, the end of caste and gender oppression, and the building of an egalitarian society. The BJP which unleashes pogroms against minority communities threatens this contract and hence the integrity of this nation. The Congress, though a secular force, violates this contract in a different way, as its economic policies produce some of the world's top billionaires together with thousands of peasant suicides. The Left alone can defend this contract and hence this nation, because of its commitment to an anti-communal and anti-imperialist agenda. Please vote Left."
Aijaz Ahmad
Literary Theorist and Political Commentator
"Neoliberal policies were first implemented in India by a Congress Government. The BJP-led NDA government greatly expanded those policies, with accelerated privatisation and deregulation. After Congress returned to power in 2004, heading the UPA, it deepened those same policies further. The result is jobless growth and credit-fed middle-class consumption. Even as GDP grows, wealth flies upward: more dollar billionaires at the top; thousands of peasant suicides at the heart of society. Had the Left not prevented it from further deregulating our financial system, we would be facing a crisis as sharp as that of the US or UK. Victory for either of these parties in the forthcoming elections promises more of the same — even worse, because their policies have made us much more vulnerable to havocs of the global recession. If we want to reverse these trends the Left has to be strengthened."
Saeed Mirza
Film Director
"The role of the Left, both in the pre-independence and post-independence period, has been crucial in keeping the Indian society, polity and culture imbued with secular values. At the present juncture any weakening of the Left will give a great fillip to the communal and retrograde forces. I appeal to all democratically minded people to support the Left in the elections to the 15th Lok Sabha."
Jayati Ghosh
Economist, Jawaharlal Nehru University
"These general elections are being held in the midst of economic slowdown, rapidly increasing unemployment and agrarian distress. I hope the elections bring into being a government that is not obsessed with protecting and subsidizing large capital, as the UPA government has been. Instead, we desperately need a central government that will focus on the needs of ordinary people - workers and peasants, students and the self-employed - and will act to bring them relief and improve their future. Similarly, I hope the voters reject the BJP's politics of hate and fear, which actually sow the seeds of more violence and insecurity. India is a complex and diverse country, and the electoral process reflects that diversity. We should not be afraid of heterogeneous political groupings, as long as they share the basic agenda of improving the lot of common people."
Shamshad Hussain
Painter
"The Left in India has been in the forefront of meeting the challenge of communal forces who have attacked the freedom of expression of artists and scholars in the name of cultural nationalism. Whenever artists have come under attack, the Left has unhesitatingly defended them. I appeal to all those who cherish artists' freedom, to vote for the Left in the forth coming elections."
C.P.Chandrashekhar
Economist, Jawaharlal Nehru University
"This is a moment of transformation globally and in India. The economic crisis poses new challenges but also offers an opportunity: to redirect development on to a more productive, egalitarian and environmentally-friendly trajectory. The Congress is in a state of denial, unwilling to recognise that the policies it has pursued in and outside power for the last two decades and more have been proved to be completely wrong. On the other hand, the BJP is attempting to divert attention from these pro-rich and socially-bankrupt policies by exploiting the unemployment resulting from it to fuel the divisive and communal politics it expects will restore it to power. That effort must be fought and scorched. We need a movement that can defeat both these forces, which must be intellectually and politically led by the Left parties."
M.K. Raina
Theatre Director and Actor
"The approaching elections to the Lok Sabha are crucial. They will determine the future course of development of our economic and foreign policy. The threat of the communal fascist forces is also very real as is evidenced in the recent incidents in Orissa and Karnataka. Another dangerous development of the last year has been the government's foreign policy which is seeking to forge a strategic alliance with the United States. This makes us give up our non-aligned foreign policy. Our closeness to the United States and Israel makes us vulnerable to terrorism. In such a situation a progressive government which will work for the down trodden and pursue an independent foreign policy is the need of the hour."
Moloyashree Hashmi
Theatre Artist, Jana Natya Manch
"This is going to be a landmark election. We have seen the Congress for a long time, and unfortunately we have also had to bear the brunt of the BJP being in power for a while. It is clear as daylight that neither of these parties have any alternatives to offer. The world may be reeling under an unprecedented economic crisis, free market capitalism may be an object of ridicule all over, our own people may be facing massive wage cuts and job cuts, but as far as the Congress is concerned, it is business as usual. The BJP – well, what can you say about a party that peddles nothing but hatred and violence? I am sure the people of India will return a very large number of Left MPs, to give a new direction to Indian politics."
Vijay Prashad
Professor of International Studies, Trinity College
"Election after election in Latin America has brought the Left to power. A decade ago, the picture was different. The Liberal-Right ruled the roost, pushing themselves as the parties of Order and Efficiency, the local franchises of Globalization. But they were utterly discredited, shown up as the parties of Corruption and Brutality. The Left and the social movements bided their time, working to build the confidence of the people who suffered from dictatorships and neo-liberalism. The subordinated state revealed itself from Bolivia to Venezuela, from Cuba to El Salvador: the red tide swept Latin America. It is India's turn. The financial crisis has discredited the Congress' claim to being the Party of the Poor: the velvet glove of compassion is now off, as the Iron Fist of Class Domination reveals itself. The BJP has not even this velvet glove. Neither of these is a worthy choice. The Left alone stands for the Future. That is the message from Latin America."
G P Deshpande
Playwright and Former Professor of Chinese Studies, JNU
"We are all close to yet another grand electoral battle. These are exciting times. But they are also difficult times. It is small wonder if we are a little uncertain if we cannot decide whom we should vote for. Whom do we really vote? Let us pause and think if there are people and political formations that have pursued consistent policies with the interests of the Indian people in view. It must be emphatically asserted that there are such formations. Are there any people or political formations who have tried their best to assert the inviolability of India's economic and political sovereignty? Yes, there are. The nuke deal with the US has shown us who they are. There is no realistic alternative if you want Indian people's interests and India's integrity and sovereignty to be protected. Vote for the Left."
PDF form of the statements is attached below for download.
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04/03/09 PHD comic: 'Best Buddies'
from PHD Comics
Ref : http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1155
Ref : http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1155
| Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham | www.phdcomics.com | |
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| title: "Best Buddies" - originally published 4/3/2009 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! | ||
03/30/09 PHD comic: 'What to call your Professor'
from PHD Comics
Ref : http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1153
Ref : http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1153
| Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham | www.phdcomics.com | |
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| title: "What to call your Professor" - originally published 3/30/2009 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! | ||
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